Patrick
January 18, 2019, 7:28pm
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gbrooks9:
Sometimes the clearest reveal of where to better explain ourselves is obtained by reading a critic’s thumbnail objections to Genealigical Adam.
The misinterpretations are sometimes stunning in missing the points we once thought were oerfectly clear.
My top points for clarification on Geneal.Adam:
1] The deadend details of Cain, which could habe been left out completely seem to have a purpose: to make ancient readers wonder who did Cain fear, who did he marry, and who lived in his city?
2] a careful reading of Gen 1 vs 2 suggests a possible answer: there was a larger group of humans created by God in Gen 1. Gen 2 was about a test run with 2 more humans, especially intended to care for Gods garden.
3] This setting is available to sustain Evangelical views on Romans 5 (Original Sin), but does not REQUIRE these views.
4] Genealogy simulations show that a single mated pair, released into a larger population of the same “kind”, shows that almost any modest factor for migration or wandering is enough to assure that all those humans alive some 2000 to 3000 years in the future can claim the mated pair (as well as multiple other couples) as Universal Ancestors.
Enough time exists for all humanity to have Adamic paternity in their ancestry by the time of the birth of Jesus.
Image Bearing is explicitly connected to the pre-Adam population in Gen 1. While Gen 9 implies it for all generations after Noahs sons have married into the humans of Gen 1 origins.
De novo Adam/Eve can be placed most easily in an Old Earth timeline, anytime between 6000 ya to 25,000 ya… in connection with agricultural evolution.
it is scientifically obvioys that there is a difference between finding no evidence of an Elephant in a living room vs. finding no evidence of a fly in a living room: Christians who support science can accept the miracle if the birth or the resurrectiin if Jesus without conflict. Adding the special creation of 1 man and 1 woman is no different; the science if Evolution is not overturnef by a few divine miracles here and there.
Yes, from science we know that several species of evolved humans were living and advancing across the entire landmass of Earth for about two million years. And then a few thousand years ago a De novo Adam and Eve appears. Yes this is a really convincing read of Genesis.
